Lucien Bonaparte (1775-1840)
Brother of Napoleon; he was captured by the British while attempting to flee to the
United States. He lived under house arrest in England (1810-14) while working on his epic
poem on Napoleon.

Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832)
Scottish philosopher and man of letters who defended the French Revolution in Vindiciae Gallicae (1791); he was Recorder of Bombay (1803-1812) and
MP for Knaresborough (1819-32).

Germaine de Staël (1766-1817)
French woman of letters; author of the novel Corinne, ou L'Italie
(1807) and De l'Allemagne (1811); banned from Paris by Napoleon, she
spent her later years living in Germany, Britain, and Switzerland.

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Source Description:

Author: Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904

Title:Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891).

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Series: Lord Byron and his Times: http://lordbyron.org

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Publisher: Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Tech